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Call for Proposals: Corporate & Organizational Decision-Making

The Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN)—a partnership between the Company Law department and the Business Studies department of the Leiden Law School—is launching its call for proposals for...

17 September 2019

Iris Wuisman

Jean-Pierre van der Rest

Jan Adriaanse

Reinout Vriesendorp

Regulatory and Market Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings

In the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, a series of alternative financing solutions have emerged, of which one of the most successful are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ICOs are a...

7 August 2019

Ricardo Correia

Blockchain and public companies: The coming revolution in share ownership transparency, proxy-voting, and corporate governance?

Once upon a time, in a far simpler world, corporations and their shareholders had a direct relationship with each other. Corporations could follow any change in shareholdings directly from the...

In Code(r) We Trust? Rethinking ‘Trustless’ Smart Contracts

Trust is an integral aspect of all human relationships. Trust facilitates social cooperation and coordination. Contractual relationships are no exception. Non-legal mechanisms such as reputation and societal constraints may induce...

Intermediated Securities Holding Systems Revisited

Recent technological developments require a reconsideration of intermediated securities holding systems. This post presents two recent papers that examine aspects of this issue.Current intermediated securities holding systems have been shaped...

14 May 2019

Charles W. Mooney, Jr.

Thomas Keijser

Corporate Interests and the Governance of Blockchains

All blockchains have rules that govern their operations. As blockchains evolve they may need to change their rules. Blockchain governance refers to the system in place through which decisions regarding...

Venture Capital in the Rise of Crypto Economy: Problems and Prospects

The rise of the crypto economy has brought promises and perils to the venture capital industry. By mid-2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) had surpassed angel and venture capital funding as...

3 April 2019

Lin Lin

Dominika Nestarcova

Legal Boundaries of Blockchain Technologies: Smart Contracts as Self-Help

Blockchain technologies promise to execute tasks that have traditionally been settled by legal institutions. Some providers of such technologies explicitly offer ‘to act as a digital jurisdiction’ Such...

9 January 2019

Florian Möslein

Initial Coin Offerings and Insolvency Law

In the last few years, an ever-increasing number of platforms are launching ICOs (initial coin offerings). But what happens if an insolvent debtor holds tokens and insolvency proceedings are opened?...

17 December 2018

Renato Mangano

Cryptocurrency Transactions: Immutable but not Irreparable

It is often said that transactions made on the blockchain are immutable: once the transaction is done, it is done. And in principle they are indeed immutable. Aside from security...

12 December 2018

Grygoriy Pustovit

Call for Proposals: Corporate & Organizational Decision-Making

Regulatory and Market Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings

Blockchain and public companies: The coming revolution in share ownership transparency, proxy-voting, and corporate governance?

In Code(r) We Trust? Rethinking ‘Trustless’ Smart Contracts

Intermediated Securities Holding Systems Revisited

Corporate Interests and the Governance of Blockchains

Venture Capital in the Rise of Crypto Economy: Problems and Prospects

Legal Boundaries of Blockchain Technologies: Smart Contracts as Self-Help

Initial Coin Offerings and Insolvency Law

Cryptocurrency Transactions: Immutable but not Irreparable

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